As the maintainer and lead developer of Netplan, I’m proud to announce the general availability of Netplan v1.0 after more than 7 years of development efforts. Over the years, we’ve had approximately 80 individual contributors from around the globe. This includes many contributions from our Netplan core-team at Canonical as well as organisations like Microsoft and Deutsche Telekom.

In software development, two primary models of software exist: open source and closed source. Both types have their benefits and drawbacks, and understanding the differences between them can help you make informed decisions when choosing software for your projects. To simplify the concepts of open source and closed source software, let’s use the analogy of community cookbooks — open source — and a secret family recipe: the closed source.

Log management tools provide visibility into the performance and behavior of systems, applications, networks, and infrastructure components. By collecting and analyzing logs, you can monitor for anomalies, track trends, and identify potential issues before they escalate. Choosing the right log management solution requires careful consideration of several factors to ensure that it meets your specific needs and goals. Here are the most popular open source log management tools to help you choose.

You might have heard of Spotify Backstage (backstage.io), an open-source option for building internal developer portals. But what is Spotify Backstage? This article will help answer your questions about Backstage and explain important considerations to think about if you’re deciding whether to adopt in your team.

Discover how to build a technology infrastructure to get the best of both open source and proprietary software The debate on the cohabitation of open source software (OSS) and proprietary software has persisted as long as both have existed. OSS, designed for unrestricted access and usage, and proprietary software, its opposite, have often been positioned as opponents in the technology arena. However, the reality is far from this either/or dynamic.

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Security and compliance are important in any organization. And most organizations use open source software (OSS) somewhere in their application stack. Open source compliance keeps OSS technologies secure by making sure they’re used in a way that aligns with security best practices, internal policies, and regulatory expectations.

In December 2023, Canonical joined the Sylva project of Linux Foundation Europe to provide fully open-source and upstream telco platform solutions to the project. Sylva aims to tackle the fragmentation in telco cloud technologies and the vendor lock-in caused by proprietary platform solutions, by defining a common validation software framework for telco core and edge clouds.

In the network infrastructure, load balancers play a major role in distributing incoming traffic across multiple servers, optimal performance, scalability, and reliability. Choosing the right load balancer is important as organizations meet the demands of the digital era, characterized by increasing data volumes and user expectations. Open-source software offers many options, providing flexibility, transparency, and community-driven support.

Mohammed Al Sahaf serves as Technical Product Manager at Samsung Electronics Saudi Arabia. Outside his day job, he serves with the Caddy team to tackle the web of problems facing web servers in the third millennium. Mohammed is the author of Kadeessh, formerly caddy-ssh, and the maintainer of numerous Caddy modules. When he isn’t programming, he is trying to catch up on life and sleep with the help of coffee.